Ghost stories

Submitted by adammyerson on Wed, 10/14/2009 - 10:20

For those of you who remember, I just got a huge wave of nostalgia for Turtles and Metals.

Amidst the misery of the '80's, there was a lot of joy at those spots. Watching Ram flip a 36-inch skateboard like it was 2/3rd the size over the banks at Turtles is still, in my mind, the defining aspect of that period. Although, there's a picture of Fred Smith stand-up grinding the lip of the C-Pool that always blew me away, too. I only ever got to skate that once, since it was always full of water when we'd show up. I need to find that photo.

The bricks at Government Center, and Boston City Hospital, the C-Pool, Metals, Turtles, the drainage ditch that Pete Verdone took me to one time; Boston used to be an amazing city to skate. All those spots are either gone, closed, or policed now.

Anyway, I gotta get back to work. Enjoy the video. If you're reading this on my Facebook feed, click through so you can watch it. That's 3 feet of vert, with a 2-inch lip before the vert starts that you have to click past. Deadly. 

 

Comments

Submitted by Nonstophate on Wed, 10/14/2009 - 22:06.
metals was skatable again earlier this summer. They have been moving it around a lot and every time you can ride it for a couple days before they fence it off. C pool is empty right now. Rode it last week. It's insane the things that have gone down in that thing. It's so hard to skate. Turtles was the best ever. It's so sad that it's gone. There are still a ton of spots around town. Most are hidden and you need to really hunt to find new stuff. Searching makes it that much better though
Submitted by brettr on Tue, 10/20/2009 - 21:05.
brett Thrasher did a sweet C-pool spread with Salba, Dougie Death and some others a few months back. That thing looks super burly.